NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Tissue samples from patients who died in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina struck are being tested to see if they were deliberately overdosed.
Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti told CNN allegations of possible euthanasia at Memorial Medical Center are "credible and worth investigating," while Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard confirmed that one of the tests is to determine if fatal doses of the painkiller morphine were in the bodies of any of the dead.
Memorial Hospital was a refuge for up to 2,000 people during and after the Aug. 29 storm.
Dr. Bryant King, a contract physician for Memorial who was there when conditions were at their worst, told the network another doctor came to him and said the administrator suggested patients be put "out of their misery."
King later left the hospital and says he never saw any acts of euthanasia and does not know what was in the syringes he saw another doctor carrying.
